Sunday is my spiritual day, and I many times post on religion. Life and Death...God...our ultimate future. Don McLean was recently interviewed, and while I have written about him on numerous occasions, for his American Pie is about the death of Buddy Holly ( 22 ), Richie Valens ( 17 ) and the Big Bopper ( 28 ), this article evoked sufficient emotions as to inspire me to do this one more time. I was not aware that McLean had a premonition when he was 15 that his father was going to die. A few days later, showing no particular symptoms, he dropped dead right in front of him. His father was his hero. Now 75, he talked further of his 1971 American Pie he wrote at the age of 24. Said he cried for two years and blamed himself for his father's death. Thus the song of the '60's from that plane crash, the day the music died. His original handwritten lyrics sold in 2015 for $1.2 million. A broadway show is pla...
New SIMPLE SOLUTIONS for PLANET EARTH AND HUMANITY: This blog site derives from the original version of Planet Earth & Humanity, but will be more WE than ME. The coverage will remain similar, but perhaps these postings will seem to come from a parallel universe, or maybe even Purgatory. But truth and reality will prevail, with dashes of whimsy and levity to help make your day.